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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  I was five years old the first time someone accused me of witchcraft ... my towering intellect and spirit, and not the combination of bushy ... looked like a witch! Me: ..... The fourth time was a couple of weeks ago

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... the goal. If taking 66 units of classes and sleeping every night was ... the power of hundreds of strangers potentially reading this and placing

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  The last post I made was kind of a lot. Even beginning to write this ... them to another room. Then on the first weekend of February, the weekend before the semester started, we moved all of them back and organized them

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  of them have in common though are the scale and weight of the exams ... of thought. Throughout the semester you'll take 1-3 tests + final and ... the corresponding paper of the EXAMS. 1B Computer Scientists have 4

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  chris and tiramisu for a hall birthday. it's the first day of the long ... )_/¯" maybe you can be the judge of that. i'm taking 5.12 (organic chemistry i ... don't know, i kind of like organic chemistry, and i like the professor

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  six MIT students walk into a german bar iap '26 #2

  

  time, in which MIT students are sent to dozens of countries around the ... different. Instead, a larger group of students (the six of us) worked in ... the University of Regensburg to design a unit-worth of curriculum to be

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 16, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in ... folks here aren’t used to failing. The biggest highlight of my first month ... imagine the kind of support you’ll get. You don’t need to know what to ask

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  found himself one of the few prefrosh there. It was really hard connecting ... around in the back of my head. I felt I wouldn't fit in unless my idea of a ... with mashed potatoes. Like the prefrosh in that thread, I too was one of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  the names of their kids' schools as status symbols. You've craved an environment full of other intelligent people. When the going gets rough in high ... until they get that piece of paper that will open the gate into the "real

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  I’ve been breaking the monotony of quarantine and wearing pajamas all day by doing new things! I’ve wanted to try many of the things listed ... showed as purple. The downside was that there was a lot of transfer; my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  chain In the near future, the presence of human colonies on the moon will ... an international team have mapped “one of the largest and most ... have discovered the final piece of the synthesis pathway of vitamin B12

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  . The Media Lab is much better at this sort of stuff than I am, after all ... green blob is Petey, naturally), the conglomerate of blue, red, and brown blobs is comprised almost entirely of East Campus people, and the very

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  thinking about, and where the time I put in materialized in the form of cool ... went into them. And now for the plug… Sure, I did a lot of science ... to enter, and just some of the awesome prizes include: • A trip to MIT

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  traditions of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these I3 ... MITs, but with the advent of YouTube/Vimeo/etc they are now posted online ... communities produce a video every year, so these aren't comprehensive of all the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  I FINALLY PASSED THE SWIM TEST!!!! 3.5 years late hehe

  

  ="368"] the moment of truth. let's see if i can swim 100 continuous meters

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of activity reminds me of the mental motions to solving a math or programming ... get afraid, and have to cope with risk and the limits of safety and your

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MTV Wait, I think that name might already be taken

  

  , we have great CPW clips on the Class of 2014 site. If you didn't see Dr ... get that one last answer. Good luck! BTW, if you're not part of the ... lamenting our lack of access to Pixar's render farm and kicking myself for not

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  right now and then come back. In celebration of evermore as well as the ... student who dreams of the same elite university half the school is applying ... ; coney island The question pounds my head What's a lifetime of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  , allowing for a certain amount of lounging during lecture. The desk is a bit ... the shear enjoyment of it. Unfortunately, sitting in the seat is not as ... pole that sits in front of the chair. It has enough writing room for even

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  The first speech I ever gave in my life was to the 1000 of you who ... end result? A HACK!! It was raised from the ceiling of Stata the night before the one-year memorial of Officer Sean Collier. It was such a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014